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This fasting...is very good, provided the commandments of the Lord be observed...First of all, be on your guard against every evil word, and every evil desire, and purify your heart from all the vanities of this world. If you guard against these things, your fasting will be perfect. And you will do also as follows. Having fulfilled what is written, in the day on which you fast you will taste nothing but bread and water; and having reckoned up the price of the dishes of that day which you intended to have eaten, you will give it to a widow, or an orphan, or to some person in want, and thus you will exhibit humility of mind, so that he who has received benefit from your humility may fill his own soul, and pray for you to the Lord.
The Shepherd of Hermas (c. 90-140)

"We shall see the snares of the demons are like smoke, and the evil ones themselves flee rather than pursue. As I said before, they are exceeding fearful and always looking forward to the fire prepared for them." - St. Anthony of Egypt (251 ”“ 356)

It is very difficult to look down on the sins of others when your eyes are lifted up to the crucified Son of God, who bore the penalty of our own iniquities on the cross.

"Instead of starting with ourselves, we always want to change others first and ourselves last. If only we would all start with ourselves, there'd be peace all around." - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

"Make a list of all those who hurt you or those whom you have hurt, either by word or deed. Make a decision to be reconciled to all by forgiving and receiving forgiveness. Take the humble road.” - K.P. Yohannan

"There's nothing that angers God more, nothing that exposes us so much and leads to our isolation than gossip, than condemning and slaughtering other people." - Abba Dorotheos

"There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.” - George Muller

"The measure of my spirit of criticism is the measure of my distance from Christ.” ~ E. Stanley Jones

"Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.” - Richard Sibbes

"There is no greater joy, in earth or in heaven, than communion with God, and prayer in the name of Jesus brings us into communion with Him." - R.A. Torrey

"It is so important, so crucial, a matter of life and death, that we follow Jesus’ example. In our loud, confused, topsy-turvy world, where each of us is on the go from morning until night, hurrying and scurrying from one thing to another, it is very important that we stop at appointed intervals and wait upon the Lord, sitting at His feet, in prayer and liturgy. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)" - Fr. Richard Demetrius Andrews

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." - Henry Martyn (missionary to India and Persia, died at age 31).

"A minister may be very faithful in his orthodoxy, most zealous in his service, and yet be so, chiefly, in the power of human wisdom and zeal. One of the sings of this is that there is little pleasure and perseverance in fellowship with Christ. Love of prayer is one of the marks of the Spirit." - Andrew Murray

"The indwelling presence is the focal point of prayer. We need no wings, only a place of silence where we can centre our gaze (upon Him)." - St. Teresa of Avila

"Great God who loves the broken and hopeless, Please open my eyes to see my own failures and sins so that I may be slow to judge others and be willing to judge myself, and seek for Your mercy." - K.P. Yohannan

"The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God." - Thomas Cranmer

"Do not wander from the Church. She is your hope and your salvation. She is higher than the heavens, firmer than rock, wider than the world; she never grows old, but is forever renewing her youth.” - St. John Chrysostom

The crowns of the saints are cast in crucibles; scars are the price of their scepters. That they might occupy exalted places in the Kingdom age, the Lord takes His chosen ones deep into the valley of humiliation. Let us then take courage as we enter our baptism of suffering. 'Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' - Maynard James

"Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received.. but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage." - St. Francis of Assisi

"Slander is abuse, plain and simple. In fact, it’s so heinous that Paul says it’s a sin worthy of excommunication (1 Corinthians 5:11). So I have no tolerance for it, and neither should you." - Frank Viola

21. In approaching therefore, come not with your wrists extended, or your fingers spread; but make your left hand a throne for the right, as for that which is to receive a King. And having hollowed your palm, receive the Body of Christ, saying over it, Amen. So then after having carefully hallowed your eyes by the touch of the Holy Body, partake of it; giving heed lest you lose any portion thereof ; for whatever you lose, is evidently a loss to you as it were from one of your own members. For tell me, if any one gave you grains of gold, would you not hold them with all carefulness, being on your guard against losing any of them, and suffering loss? Will you not then much more carefully keep watch, that not a crumb fall from you of what is more precious than gold and precious stones?

22. Then after you have partaken of the Body of Christ, draw near also to the Cup of His Blood; not stretching forth your hands, but bending , and saying with an air of worship and reverence, Amen , hallow yourself by partaking also of the Blood of Christ.

(St. Cyril of Jerusalem [c. 313-386], Catechetical Lectures, 23:21-22)

"Learn to pray the 'Jesus Prayer' so often that it becomes natural with the rhythm of your breathing. "Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Lent is meant for a deeper understanding of prayer. Act on it." - K.P. Yohannan

"preaching it (the gospel) in the energy of the flesh and not in the power of the Holy Spirit. There is nothing more deadly than the gospel without the Spirit’s power. ‘The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.’” - R.A. Torrey

Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which fact I have in the third book taken all pains to demonstrate. It follows, then, as a matter of course, that these heretics aforementioned, since they are blind to the truth, and deviate from the [right] way, will walk in various roads; and therefore the footsteps of their doctrine are scattered here and there without agreement or connection. But the path of those belonging to the Church circumscribes the whole world, as possessing the sure tradition from the apostles, and gives unto us to see that the faith of all is one and the same

Irenæus against Heresies, Book 5, Ch 20.

"I see a man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christ's sake, until he gives up striving to attract people to himself, and seeks only to attract them to Christ. Lord give me this!" - Robert Murray Mcheyne

"Will you have oil in your lamp when the day of the Lord comes upon you?" - anonymous

"Silence is the cross on which we must crucify our ego.” - st seraphim of sarov

"To hunt for faults is not watchfulness, because it is not the act of love. To be meddlesome, to pry into things that do not contribute to our well-being, to scan people with a cold, critical eye, to be always hunting for heresy, to be alert for unfair comparisons is not the calm, thoughtful gaze of a heavenly sentinel. Watchfulness, then, is pure love on picket guard.” - G.D. Watson

"Happy while unforgiven! - A terrible happiness." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"For all nations, especially the Christians nowadays traveling as if in a wilderness of confusion created by senseless materialism and its blind daughter atheism. I offer this to what leading American men and women are saying: 'The only hope for us and for the world is to return to religion.' Again I say: 'Our hope is in the Church.' You ought to listen to these words, too, and to ponder them. We live in very tragic times, which are made more tragic by easy-going and self-indulgent people who have never read the story of Sodom, of Laish, or of Capernaum." - St Nikolai Velimirovic

"The Lord was baptized, not to be cleansed himself but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of baptism. Whoever comes, therefore, to the washing of Christ lays aside his sins” Ambrose of Milan

"...many contemporary Christians have historical "amnesia." They are missing vital aspects of the faith that are necessary for spiritual growth and maturity, and as a result they lack roots - an understanding of where they have come from and who they really are. Christian's today have lost hold of our collective story, and that loss is one reason why liturgy resonates with so many. The recovery of liturgy offers them a way to re-enter the narrative, to re-engage with the story." - The Revd Dr Winfield Bevins, Ever Ancient Ever New

"John Calvin rightly observed that, "the human mind is an idol factory”. We keep making idols of mind and matter on a daily basis. One day our idols will fail us. May God help us to refocus our love and adulation toward Him and his Son, Jesus Christ who suffered and died for our sins and rose again for our justification." - Bishop Felix Orji

"There is a well of strength that is not our own. But it is filled to overflowing with pure water for those who thirst." - Josh Olson

"The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth." Leonard Ravenhill

"The ultimate test of the Christian life is the amount of time we give to prayer." - Martyn Lloyd Jones

"Certainly the great trouble with many of our churches is that they are like great grain containers, full of unplanted wheat which has become musty, and moldy, and befouled by the rats of envy and jealousy. If only each little grain had been rent asunder from its fellows, cast into the dark, wet earth, buried out of sight, and left alone to endure disintegration and death, what a harvest we would see!" - L.E. Maxwell

"One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.” - Martin Luther

"When we choose to give God pleasure He gives us pleasure. Only pleasure through Him is completely satisfying (Psa. 16:11)." - Bill Gothard

"Giving thanks should be a regular practice in the life of every believer. It is the essence of God’s will for our lives. (1 Thess. 5:18)" - Bill Gothard

"You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God."
- C.S. Lewis

"There is a saying that there's always room at the top. Yes, but there's plenty of room at the bottom, too." - F.B. Meyer

"Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?" -Watchman Nee

"Even the most mature Christians have momentary moral lapses and times of pruning when there seems to be little fruit. The work of God in our life cannot be determined by examining our conduct through the course of only a few days." - Paul Washer

"The more we are broken, the more God can use us to be a blessing to others." - Zac Poonen

"Sometimes it takes the Lord years to get us sufficiently emptied, weak and small, so that we can bear His glory in our lives...when He has got us small enough and empty enough, then there is a chance for the working of His Spirit in glory.” - T. Austin Sparks

"A new convert will not only have a new relationship with God and His people, but also an altered relationship with sin and the world. He will be averse to the sin he once loved and contrary to the world in whose path he once walked." - Paul Washer

"Reckon on God." - F.B. Meyer

"God has two thrones--the one in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest hearts." - Unknown

"A man may preach from false motives. A man may write books, and make fine speeches, and seem diligent in good works, and yet be a Judas Iscariot. But a man seldom goes into his closet, and pours out his soul before God in secret, unless he is serious.” - J.C. Ryle

"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before
using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He
has to shake them well before they are ever usable."
-Vance Havner

"God is pleased sometimes to make choice of those as his messengers who have fewest of the advantages of art or nature. Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such." - Matthew Henry

"Abiding in Christ, living in union with him, drawing all our spiritual resources from him, involves allowing his word to 'abide' in us, that is to fill our minds and affections and dominate our lives." Sinclair B. Ferguson

"It was Theoddore Monod who declared that 'Obedience is the
greatest commentary upon the Bible - Do, and thou shalt know.'" - Herbert Lockyer

"Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ." - R. C. Sproul

"If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith." - Francis Chan

"There is nothing little in God." - C.H. Spurgeon

"It is possible to know all about doctrine and still not know Jesus. A person's soul is in grave danger when the knowledge of doctrine surpasses Jesus, avoiding intimate touch with Him." - Oswald Chambers

"If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airwaves and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, the righteousness of God, and the Law of God until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?" Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Don't use John 3:16. Such drastic action is needed because we have a gospel hardened generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved." - Paris Reidhead

"Perhaps your Christian life remains weak because nothing ever happens when you are alone with God.” - Alan Redpath

"We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us." - R.C. Sproul

"A man being rich under the gospel, when it is known that his
money can be used for the glory of God and the conversion of
souls, is demonstration absolute, that he loves the world
supremely. To say that he is rich, but does not set his heart upon
riches--that he continues to retain his wealth, and yet does not set
his heart upon it, is manifestly absurd and false. For, certainly,
nothing but a supreme attachment to it could cause him to hold on
to the possession of it, when every wind is loaded down with cries
and beseechings to send the bread of life to those that are ready
to perish." - Charles Finney

"Prayerlessness is a spiritual grave.” - Dr. J. Sidlow Baxter.

"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns with greater power, than ever." - Vance Havner

"Ours is a generation that craves "feel good" preaching. Scripture predicts that "the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. Gospel promises are in high demand, while gospel warnings are spurned with outspoken contempt. Just yesterday a friend of mine told me that there are 64 TAKE HEEDS in the Bible. Preaching on sin, wrath, judgement, hell and apostasy are rarely heard in contemporary preaching. And perhaps this is the very reason why there is rarely a conversion reported in the majority of evangelical churches today." - Don Currin

"The making of a devil was an angel. The making of a son of perdition was an apostle. The making of an apostate is a professing Christian.” - Charles Spurgeon

"One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness. One of the most essential qualities of faith that is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is holy audacity. " - A.B. Simpson

"Miss Sunday morning if you have to; miss Sunday evening if you must, but never miss the prayer meeting unless you are dead.” - Bill Mcleod

"The Holy Spirit is never going to call you legalistic because you deny yourself." - Steve Gallagher

"Perhaps in ministry there is no more potent intoxicant than the praise of men, and there is no more dangerous form of drunkenness than to be drunk with your own glory." - Paul Tripp

"The Holy Spirit is a person and cannot be measured by containers. And where it is suggested that we be filled with the Spirit, it simply means that one who experiences this blessing has his entire life placed under the control of the Holy Spirit. It means that every little nook in our lives””the God life, the business life, the religious life, the economics of life””in fact, ALL that belongs in our lives, be placed under the Holy Spirit.” ”” Lewi Pethrus

"I recommend to you holy simplicity. Look straight in front of you and not at those dangers you see in the distance. As you say, to you they look like armies, but they are only willow branches; and while you are looking at them you may take a false step. Let us be firmly resolved to serve God with our whole heart and life. Beyond that, let us have no care about tomorrow." - St. Francis de Sales

"A dark hour makes Jesus bright." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them." - E.M. Bounds

"This Iranian woman told me, 'the American church is sleepy and under a Satanic lullaby.' And I had to ask myself, what's more dangerous: spiritual lethargy or persecution?" - Jon Bloom

"I saw the snares of the devil laid out upon the ground, and I said: 'who can flee from these? An angel said to me: Humility." - St. Anthony

"If a man insults me, kills my father, my mother, my brother, and then gouges out my eye, as a Christian it is my duty to forgive him. We who are pious Christians ought to love our enemies and forgive them. We ought to offer them food and drink, and entreat God for their souls. And then we should say: ‘My God, I beseech Thee to forgive me, as I have forgiven my enemies.’" - St. Kosmos Aitolos

"Religious covetousness is justified these days through the false doctrine called, the prosperity message. No matter how you look at it, covetousness is still idolatry." - Teryl Hebert

"We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word." - Elisabeth Elliot

"Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not committed." - A.W. Tozer

"I believe there is no liturgy in the World, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid scriptural, rational piety, than the common prayer of the church of England. And thoguh the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, no only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree." - John Wesley

"Failure is never final as long as there is the grace of God." - Steve Lawson

"Revival introduces us to the better taste of God’s presence. When He becomes our great pursuit, by default, anything that does not reflect Him or honor Him will be stripped out of our lives; we simply will not tolerate it." - Michael L. Brown

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - St. Augustine

"I would rather lose all my money and all my health than lose the anointing of God upon my life." - Zac Poonen

"God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature." ~ Thomas Watson

"God is always trying to give good things to us but our hands are too full to recieve them." - St. Augustine

"If you are not moved in the presence of God, something is wrong, your heart has become fallow. God is looking for hearts that are yielded to Him, broken hearts. Are you moved with the things that move God heart? Are you moved by the fact that many are perishing?" - Alan Baker

"A theology which cannot be sung, is at some level, a flawed theology" - J. I. Packer

"The very place in prayer we need, dullness and apathy of spirit keep us from it. The One who can quicken us, refresh us and revive us and can put fire into our hearts, is the very One we avoid. We are in a daily battle to constantly give our attention to prayer." - Hugh Morrison

"Of itself prayerlessness is, I have no doubt, worse than murder, worse than adultery, worse than blasphemy. It is more fundamental. It more clearly reveals the heart. In fact, while murder, adultery and blasphemy may catch a person unaware, trapped by the carnal mind, prayerlessness is the very heart of the carnal mind itself, a state of alienation from God” - John R. Rice

"God is attracted to our weakness.” ”“ Jim Cymbala

"Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account." - Oswald Chambers

"To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless, but who is sinless except God? Who ever thinks about the multitude of his own sins in his heart never wants to make the sins of others a topic of conversation. To judge a man who has gone astray is a sign of pride, and God resists the proud. On the other hand, one who every hour prepares himself to give answer for his own sins will not quickly lift up his head to examine the mistakes of others.”
”” St. Gennadius of Constantinople

"There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets." - J.I. Packer

"Christ conquered the devil using the same weapons that the devil used against us: a virgin, a tree, and death.” - St. John Chrysostomos

”ª"The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding His beauty in the written Word.” - John Newton

"There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.”
~ Adoniram Judson - Missionary 1788 ~

"Let us, beloved brethren, arouse ourselves as much as we can; and breaking the slumber of our ancient listlessness, let us be watchful to observe and to do the Lord's precepts. Let us be such as He Himself has bidden us to be, saying, Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning; and you yourselves like men that wait for their Lord, when He shall come from the wedding, that when He comes and knocks, they may open to Him. Blessed are those servants whom their Lord, when He comes, shall find watching. We ought to be girt about, lest, when the day of setting forth comes, it should find us burdened and entangled. Let our light shine in good works, and glow in such wise as to lead us from the night of this world to the daylight of eternal brightness. Let us always with solicitude and caution wait for the sudden coming of the Lord, that when He shall knock, our faith may be on the watch, and receive from the Lord the reward of our vigilance. If these commands be observed, if these warnings and precepts be kept, we cannot be overtaken in slumber by the deceit of the devil; but we shall reign with Christ in His kingdom as servants that watch.” - St. Cyprian of Carthage, AD 250

The gospel is a story about Christ, God’s and David’s son, who died and was raised, and is established as Lord. This is the gospel in a nutshell. ”“ Martin Luther

Take care to guard yourself from condemning and judging; you will have to give an answer not for the faults and offenses of your neighbor, but for your own, and especially for judging. Who is free from passions and spiritual weaknesses and does not get overcome by them? Some have some passions, some have others; some have more, some have less; and often times we see a speck in our neighbor’s eye, but don’t see the beam in our own.””St. Macarius of Optina

" God cannot be explained, but he can be experienced. A day with him is better than a thousand hours of instruction about him.”
-Leonard Ravenhill

"And there is therefore in this beast, when he comes, a recapitulation made of all sorts of iniquity and of every deceit, in order that all apostate power, flowing into and being shut up in him, may be sent into the furnace of fire...since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels." (Irenaeus)

"Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please
God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity."
- Brother Lawrence

"A cup of sweet water cannot spill a bitter drop. No matter how suddenly it is jarred." - Amy Carmichael

"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor ”“ that is the only way out of a hole. This process of surrender, this movement full speed astern, is what Christians call repentance.” - C.S. Lewis

"How Can I Bring Joy to My Bridegroom Jesus? When for love of Him I gladly do things that I find hard." - Basilea Schlink

"The sin of Sodom is contrary to nature, as it is also with brute beasts.”
”  Apostolic Constitutions, AD 250-350, Book VI, Chapter XXVIII

"Our job is not to connect to the culture, our job is to communicate to the culture the gospel.” - Don McClure

"Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His
pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long
the choice will be before us in a thousand ways." - Roy Hession

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.” - Francis of Assisi

"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” John R.W. Stott

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing” -. C. S. Lewis

More purity give me, more strength to o'ercome;
More freedom from earth-stains, more longings for Home;
More fit for the Kingdom, more used would I be,
More blessed and holy, more, Saviour, like Thee!
(Philip P. Bliss, 1838-1876, an associate of D.L. Moody)

"I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.”- William Tyndale

"The Christian Faith is ultimately not a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"On the mountains torrents flow right along, cutting their own courses. But on the plains canals have to be dug out painfully by men so that the water might flow. So among those who live on the heights with God, the Holy Spirit makes its way through of its own accord, whereas those who devote little time to prayer and com- munion with God have to organise painfully.” - Sundar Singh

"Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray." - Charles H. Brent

"Man is interested in his convenience, God is interested in His glory and our character." - Zac Poonen

"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” - C.S. Lewis

"If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West." - Daniel Lapin (Orthodox Jewish rabbi)

"Beware of any man who claims to be wiser than the apostles or holier than the martyrs of the Early Church." - A.W. Tozer

"We are not sent to minister to a congregation and be content if we keep things going. We are sent to make war and to stop short of nothing but the subjugation of the world to the sway of the Lord Jesus” - William Booth

"All the pleasures of the world, and all the kingdoms of this earth, shall profit me nothing. It is better for me to die on behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth. For what shall a man be profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul? Him I seek, who died for us: Him I desire, who rose again for our sake. This is the gain which is laid up for me.” - St. Ignatius of Antioch, AD 107

"Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart." - Thomas Adams

"Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” - C.S. Lewis

"The Presence of Christ is more real to me in this room then any one of you!" - Paul Washer

"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world" ~ C.S. Lewis

"Let us occupy ourselves entirely in knowing God. The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.” - Brother Lawrence

"Jesus Himself said, 'If you think you love God but hate your brother, you are a liar. The truth is not in you.' If that doesn't shake an unforgiving person to the core, I'm not sure what would." - Carter Conlon

"Brokenness is not a word used in many places. Brokenness is simply humility’s response to the touch of God." - George Verwer

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time, your not disciplined enough” - Amy Carmichael

"Why not wish to be humbled? Our Lord was, to the utmost." - Sabina Wurmbrand

"Just as the flood came suddenly at the time of Noah and carried everyone away, just as suddenly will [the Lord] come again. By referring to the men at the time of flood, and to the Sodomites, He also indicates that when the Antichrist comes shameful pleasures will be commonplace among people, and they will become lewd sensualists, abandoning themselves to unlawful pleasures. This is just as the Apostle said, that in the last days men would become lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. It is fitting that wickedness should flourish during the reign of the deceiver, for he is the vile haunt of every evil and every sin. For what other way of life than his own would he make to prevail among the wretched generation of men at that time? Can anything pure arise out of uncleanliness? Therefore the people of that time will be given over to every voluptuous pleasure just as in the time of Noah, not expecting anything unpleasant in the future, and disbelieving anyone who speaks to them of unpleasant things that will happen to them. Even so did the people disbelieve the warnings of Noah and Lot.” - Blessed Theophylact, on Luke 17:26-30

"St Stephen was the starting point of the martyrs, the instructor of suffering for Christ, the foundation of righteous confession, since Stephen was the first to shed his blood for the Gospel." - Asterias

"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” - Andrew Murray

"The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory." - Andrew Murray

"There is no question that suffering in God’s work leads us to know Him more intimately. Suffering is the tool God seems to use to remove our dependence on anything other than Him.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Christ tells us that if we wish to join Him, we shall travel the way He took. It is surely not right that the Son of God should go His way on the path of shame while the sons of men walk the way of worldly honor." - St. John of Avila

"Love is a bomb that destroys all evil." - Mother Gavrilia of Athens, Greece

”ª"Prayer is the mark of a lover. Those who deeply love Jesus can't help but pray often. To love God with our entire being is the greatest command in scripture. Pastors who are not drawn to prayer should not be pastors." ”¬ - ”ªFrancis Chan”¬

"The only way to learn humility is by being humiliated." - Mother Theresa

"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” ”“ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The most significant thing in life is to seek God and know Him.” - K.P. Yohannan

"Let us also have patience””with ourselves as well as with others. God is much more concerned about our honesty before Him and our attitude of grace and mercy toward others than He is about us doing everything correctly." - K.P. Yohannan

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way." ”“ C.S. Lewis

"The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us." ”“ A.W. Tozer

"The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the door, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprsoned by the Lord, just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness." - Watchman Nee

"We need more than eloquent sermons. In this crucial time, we need the Spirit of God to move upon Christ's ministers. We need God to rend the heavens and our hearts, show us our sin, lead us in paths of righteousness, and empower us for battle." - Paul Washer

"Even if we perform upon thousands of good works, my brethren: fasts, prayers, almsgiving; even if we shed our blood for our Christ and we don’t have these two loves [love of God and love of brethren], but on the contrary have hatred and malice toward our brethren, all the good we have done is of the devil and we go to hell. But, you say, we go to hell despite all the good we do because of that little hatred? Yes, my brethren, because that hatred is the devil’s poison, and just as when we put a little yeast in a hundred pounds of flour it has such power that it causes all the dough to rise, so it is with hatred. It transforms all the good we have done into the devil’s poison." - St. Kosmas Aitolos

"The kingdom of God belongs only to those who are thoroughly dead while still alive in this world." - Meister Eckhart

"We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own." - John Owen

"The devil has striven against the truth in manifold ways. He has sometimes endeavored to destroy it by defending it.” ”“ Tertullian

"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things." - D.L. Moody

"As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any
cause to complain." - Charles Spurgeon

"Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted,
I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.” - Corrie Ten Boom

"The secret of our survival is fixing our eyes on Jesus and making Him alone our focus. Then our walk with God and our commitment to serve Him will no longer depend on whether or not people treat us right or circumstances are in our favor." - K.P. Yohannan

"They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?" - Martin Luther

"The greatest Person in heaven will be Jesus Himself, and He will be the greatest servant of all. His spirit will forever be the spirit of service." - Zac Poonen

"Lock yourself in a room; throw the key away; do something! Seek
God and be found of Him. That is His promise: "If you will seek for
Me with all your heart and all your soul, you shall be found of Me"
(Deut. 4:29). When you do obtain that knowledge, maintain it, or
else you will lose it." - Art Katz

"Humility is the key to the Kingdom" - Art Katz

"When we are weakest, God can use us the most." - brother Andrew

"In the evening of life you will be examined on love." - St.John of the Cross

"We are a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.” - Jim Elliot

"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in." - C.H. Spurgeon

"A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us." - Andrew Murray

"Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing." - Ravi Zacharias

"The pioneers of the past revival become the persecutors of the next revival." - David Ravenhill

"A disciple is someone who seeks to become like Christ in all things (Matthew 10:25). He has devoted himself to not only learn Christ’s teachings but also to imitate Christ’s life. His goal is to walk as his Master walked (I John 2:6)." - Paul Washer

"No man has his own way. It is either God's way or the devil's. You can't have your own way, unless you make God's way your own." - R.A. Torrey

"Only the humble are completely sane, for they are the only ones who see clearly their own size and limitations.” - A.W. Tozer

"In Acts the apostles prayed for 10 days then preached for 10 min-
utes and 3000 people were saved. Today pastors pray for 10 minutes
then preach for 10 days and wonder why no-one is saved." - B.H. Clendennen.

"The greatest enemy that David faced wasn't Goliath. It was Bathsheba." - Ray Comfort

"David served in one generation, his own. He could not serve in two! Where today we seek to perpetuate our work by setting up an organization or society or system, the Old Testament saints served their own day and passed on. This is an important principle of life. Wheat is sown, grows, ears, is reaped, and then the whole plant, even to the root, is plowed out. God's work is spiritual to the point of having no earthly roots, no smell of earth on it at all. Men pass on, but the Lord remains. Everything to do with the Church must be up-to-date and living, meeting the present--one could never even say the passing--needs of the hour. Never must it become fixed, earth-bound static. God Himself takes away His workers, but He gives others. Our work suffers, but His never does. Nothing touches Him. He is still God." - David Wilkerson

"Just Content to be a son
With no ambition to succeed
In realms of earth, and have no need
Of popularity's acclaim
Or purchase for myself a name.
In serving Christ; for He must be
The Lord throughout eternity,
To see His face and hear His voice
And do His bidding is my choice."
- George Warnock

"The safest place in the whole world is the centre of God's perfect will." - Zac Poonen

"‘He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures’, so that his resurrection was a divine act (not ‘he rose’ but ‘he was raised’), a historical event (‘on the third day’) and also foretold in the Old Testament.” ”“ John Stott

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." - C.T. Studd

"God's real people have always been called fanatics." - C.T. Studd

"From the desire of being great, good Lord deliver us!" - A Moravian Prayer

"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Our power in drawing others after the Lord mainly rests in our joy and communion with Him ourselves." - J. G. Bellett

"The first step to perfection is to do everything before the face of God." - Zac Poonen

"O fill your hearts with the thoughts of Him and His ways." - John Flavel

"The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus." - George Muller

"When filled with holy truth the mind rests." - C.H. Spurgeon

"The Lord is on the throne and Jesus is Victor, no matter what happens in this universe." - Zac Poonen

"A heart that is out of sync with God's will and agenda, will produce a life of barrenness." - Francois Carr

"Learn to know God." - A.W. Tozer

"Spiritual maturity is the ability to receive reproof from someone that I consider less spiritual than myself." - Don Currin

"It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you." - George Macdonald

"Begin to rejoice in the Lord...worry, fear, distrust, care--all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power." - A. B. Simpson

"Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds." - Thomas Brooks

"Dear fellow members in Christ, be admonished that you forget not charity, without which it is pot possible for you to be a Christian flock. You know what charity is, from the testimony of Paul our fellow brother, who says, "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.” I Cor. 13:4-7." - Michael Sattler

"Let no man remove you from the foundation which is laid through the letter of the holy Scriptures, and is sealed with the blood of Christ and of many witnesses of Jesus." - Michael Sattler

"It takes a crucified man to preach a crucified Christ." - E.M. Bounds

"It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout "Well done" to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a crown of thorns." - Charles Spurgeon

"The measure of my spirit of criticism is the measure of my distance from Christ.” ~ E. Stanley Jones

"When we finally see God, we will be surprised to discover how much greater His love for us was, than we had ever imagined. We will then realize how foolish all our anxieties were. But what is the use of realizing it then? Now is the time to have our eyes opened to the fact of God’s love, and to live by faith." - Zac Poonen

"Truth is a Person. If you seek truth you're seeking a Person (Jesus)." - Ravi Zacharias

"How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God." - Lottie Moon

"Why should we not ... do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?" - Lottie Moon

"In God’s ultimate judgement He gives sinners over to their sins.” - R.C. Sproul

"O Father please come..." - Paul Washer

"The Lord said to Elijah, ‘Hide yourself by the brook Cherith. . . . I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.’” 1 Kings 17:3-4. God does not expect from us that we guess how he will care for us in impossible situations, only that we trust him for the unimaginable." - John Piper

"To survive the end times, we must study whole books of the Bible, and invest time each day in getting to know the Lord through His Word and in prayer." - Paul Hattaway

"The ways, and fashions, & amusements, and recreations of the world have a continually decreasing place in the heart of a growing Christian. He feels they have a constantly diminishing hold on his own affections & gradually seem smaller and more trifling in his eyes." - J.C. Ryle

"The anointing takes away all our rights to ourselves, rights to our own lives, rights to our own interests, rights to our own prospects, rights to our own arrangements and plans and programs. It takes away all those rights and puts those rights in God's hands" - T. Austin-Sparks

"So much of popular Christianity in the West is delightful to the flesh. To walk with God in hiddenness and simplicity is rarely considered." - Paul Washer

"My home is in Heaven. I´m just traveling through this world." - Billy Graham

"The Christ in me will not fight with the Christ in you." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"Christians must submit to strict self exams concerning their lives. Where wickedness remains, salvation does not." - Jonathan Edwards

"Great numbers of persons have no concern about eternal things. They care more about their cats and dogs than about their souls." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Every true Christian hates the small, narrow spirit of denominanationalism and sectarianism, but the biggest catastrophe in the world today is not the disunity of the church, but the fact that every part of the church and every denomination is so dead and so devoid of the power and ability of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual power is not something which belongs to the world of mathematics; if we united all the denominations and added all the powers of each together, even that would not create spiritual life. The burial of many bodies in the same cemetery does not lead to resurrection. Life is more important than unity." - Martin Lloyd-Jones

"Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.” - Ravi Zacharias

"Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever." - Aiden Wilson Tozer

"If you want to build Jerusalem, the true church, you have to be broken." - Zac Poonen

"Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars." - Vance Havner

"Indeed it might almost be said that the New Testament came into being in order to warn Christian people to beware of the terrible ever-present danger of being led astray by false teaching concerning our Lord Himself and His great salvation.” - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply convicted of their need of holiness." - Major Alastair Smith (Salvation Army).

"Holiness has been the message of saints of God down the centuries, and was the foundation of the glorious Revivals of Christianity under the original Quakers, Methodists and the Salvation Army and wherever it is truly known and experienced, it is the bringer-in of Revival today." - Paget Wilkes

"The anointing is my life. If I am not in the anointing of God, woe unto me, and those who are hearing me." - Art Katz

"I wonder, many times, that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him." ~ Samuel Rutherford

"A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life." -Andrew Murray

"A true revival means nothing less than a revolution, casting out the spirit of worldliness and selfishness, and making God and His love triumph in the heart and life." - Andrew Murray

"When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him." - John Chrysostom

"Lord, open my eyes that I may see, not the visible enemy, but Thy unseen chariots of deliverance." - Hannah Whitall Smith

"When you get right with God, you become what is contemptible in the eyes of the world. Put into practice any of the principles of the Sermon on the Mount and you will be treated with amusement at first, then if you persist, the world gets annoyed and detests you." - Oswald Chambers

"Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong." - Eric Ludy

"We often pray best when we stammer and stutter, and we pray worst when words come rolling like a torrent, one after another. God is not moved by words; they are but a noise to him. He is only moved by the deep thought and the heaving emotion which dwell in the innermost spirit." - Charles Spurgeon

"If Satan allows us to work unhindered, it is because our work is of no consequence.” - D.L. Moody

"Never say that God is just. If He were just you would be in hell. Rely only on His injustice which is mercy, love and forgiveness." - Isaac the Syrian

The Danger of busyness:

"Through the years, at 4.00 a.m., by appointment with my Lord, I had been fed by the Hand of God. The busyness of preparation ate into my early morning appointment with God. Less and less time was spent in deep communion with God."

"Reading of Hezekiah’s reprieve I was comforted. The tears I wept and wept into my pillos cleansed my attitude toward the young pastor. I mourned like a dove in Lebanon for the resentment I had allowed to make a travesty of my ministry. I grieved for the spiritual capital which had drained away because my first eager communion with God at daybreak had been shortened, if not replaced, by campaign planning. Those recollections broke my heart and I wept into the pillows.” - William Duma

"The devil has zealously been distracting men of God who have purposed to attend upon the Lord without distraction. He knows his time is short. Be careful what you commit to." - David Valderrama

"What an interesting thing it is when we have a man leading the congregation in public worship who is experiencing no reality in personal worship. Can we get water out of a dry well? I believe the highest calling of a Christian leader is not his work, not his organizaton, not his people. There are too many empire builders in the Christian world today. I believe the highest calling today is worship." - George Verwer

"If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Humility and holiness always go together. Whenever hardness and harshness begin to creep into the personal attitude towards one another, we may be certain we are swerving from the light." - Oswald Chambers

"Our murmuring is the devil's music." - Thomas Watson

"The Holy Spirit will always glorify Christ - not men or experiences." - Zac Poonen

"This is the true mark of a Christian - the love of one's enemies." - Elder Silouan

‘So also, those who genuinely are his disciples receive grace from him to perform miracles in his name for the welfare of others ”“ all according to the gift which each has received from him [cf. Rom 12:6-8; 1 Cor 12:7, 10]. Some exorcize demons, and many who have thus been cleansed from evil spirits come to believe in Christ and join the Church. Others have foreknowledge of things to come: they see visions and utter prophecies. Still others heal the sick by laying their hands upon them, and they are made well. Moreover, as I have said, even the dead have been raised, and have remained among us for many years.

What else should I say? It is not possible to number all the gifts which the Chruch, throughout the whole world, has received freely from God, in the name of Jesus Christ (who was crucified under Pontius Pilate), and which she exercises day by day for the benefit of the nations, without practicing deception toward anyone, and not taking any reward from them for these miracles. As she has received freely from God, she also freely ministers to others [Matt 10:8].’

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 2:32,4

"Instead of starting with ourselves, we always want to change others first and ourselves last. If only we would all start with ourselves, there'd be peace all around." - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

"Even if we reach the summit of virtue, we are saved only by God's mercy," - St. John Chrysostom

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." - Hudson Taylor

"To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity." - Frederick W. Robertson

"If you study the Bible without applying it to your daily life, then it
would be better not to study it at all." - Zac Poonen

"There is no excuse for any believer to miss out out on a daily, life-giving connection with the Lord, because every believer has access to the Word of God and to the throne room of God through prayer. It is our connection with Him that will provide hope in the difficult days ahead." - Steve Gallagher

"The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God." - Duncan Campbell

"No knowledge of doctrine, no certainty of spiritual position must interfere with our effort to hold communion with our Master.  We dare not take His presence for granted; and if we do, we shall find the risk is great and the loss will be serious." - W.H. Griffith Thomas

"Whenever difficult or unpleasant things happen to you, meditate on Christ’s life and teach yourself to be silent. You will find peace." - K.P. Yohannan

"Never forget ”“ the one who thinks he is holy is in greater danger of pride and alienation from God. The sinner who is repentant for his failures is closer to God and reflects humility." - K.P. Yohannan

"Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.” - Elder Silouan the Athonite

"People fall in private long before they fall in public." - J. C. Ryle

"If you study the original languages, consult the commentaries, and meditate deeply, yet if you neglect to cry mightily unto the Spirit of God your study will not profit you." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Renounce everything for Christ. Do not renounce Christ for anything!" - St. Justin Popovich

"What God says is best, though all the men in the world are against it." - John Bunyan

"This, also, I am ever urging, and shall not cease to urge, that you give attention, not only to the words spoken, but that also, when at home in your house, you exercise yourselves constantly in reading the Divine Scriptures." - St. John Chrystostom

"Hearken, I entreat you, all ye that are careful for this life, and procure books that will be medicines for the soul. If ye will not any other, yet get you at least the New Testament, the Apostolic Epistles, the Acts, the Gospels, for your constant teachers." - St. John Chrystostom

"Humility ends all restlessness. It leaves all in the hands of God. Its only care is its relationship with God. It seeks the lowest place to comfort, assist and to make real peace with others. It has nothing to hide for it abides in the presence of God. It is free from all bondage through its bond with God. Through humility, God produces the very brightness of His glory within, even Christ, and His own image is formed in man." - David Valderrama

"And so let us be glad and bear with patience everything the world throws at us, secure in the knowledge that it is then that we are most in the mind of God." - St. Basil the Great

"A burning jealously for the glory of God forever will save you from every flaky thing that would have otherwise attracted and seduced you. Be jealous for His glory." - Art Katz

"Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society." ”“ St. Francis Assisi

"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him." - A.W. Tozer

"Let yourself be persecuted, but do not persecute. Be crucified, but do not crucify. Be slandered, but do not slander. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep: such is the sign of purity. Suffer with the sick. Be afflicted with sinners. Exult with those who repent. Be the friend of all, but in your spirit remain alone. Be a partaker of the sufferings of all, but keep your body chaste. Rebuke no one, revile no one, not even those who live very wickedly. Spread your cloak over those who fall into sin, each and every one, and shield them. And if you cannot take the fault on yourself and accept punishment in their place, do not destroy their character." - St. Isaac the Syrian

"When royal authority falls, and the people everywhere institute self-government (republics, democracies), then there will be room for the Antichrist to act. It will not be hard for Satan to prepare voices in favor of renouncing Christ, as experience showed during the French Revolution. There will be no one to pronounce the authoritative veto. And so when such regimes, suitable for disclosing the Antichrist’s aspirations, are instituted everywhere, then the Antichrist will appear.” - St. Theophan the Recluse

"Let God's promises shine on your problems." - Corrie Ten Boom

"God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil." - Smith Wigglesworth

"No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God." - Alexander Whyte

"If you deprive your soul of prayer, you will end up like a fish out of water." - St. Basil the Great

"Can you imagine someone handing Peter a microphone on Sunday morning and whispering, "Okay, now, you’ve got twenty minutes. We have to get the people out of here promptly because the chariot races start at one o’clock”?” - Jim Cymbala

"Great numbers of persons have no concern about eternal things. They care more about their cats and dogs than about their souls." C.H. Spurgeon

"Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore." - Alexander MacLaren

"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power." - Hudson Taylor

"There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience." - Hudson Taylor

"Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon." - Hudson Taylor

"Only what you do for Jesus Christ is eternal. Think of the one thing you will do with your life to glorify God.” - Dr. John Haggai

"We have only one life… and before you know it, the time is gone, Our life is like a vapor, a flower that withers. As Moses prayed: ‘Teach us, O God, to number our days.’” - Dr. John Haggai

"Where repentance is genuine, the disposition to repeat sin is gone." - Charles G. Finney

"Many fail to understand that Christianity is not so much about getting into heaven as to having Christ formed in you. Therefore they miss fulfilling many aspects of how to walk even as He walked. 1John 2:6" - David Valderrama

"Pray...read your Bible...get shut in with God. There’s nothing complicated about it!" - David Wilkerson

"Think what that love must have been which brought the Lord of glory from the highest heaven to become the Man of sorrows for our sakes!" - C.H. Spurgeon

"The struggle of the people of God against Antichrist has always been and will always be a present struggle. The call to oppose Antichrist must always be given in the present imperative. Whether in the future the church's children (your children and my children) are able to withstand the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, depends, to a great degree, on the success of the battle we wage against his spirit today." - Barry Gritters

"The only violence a New Testament Saint is allowed is crucifying their flesh and its lusts." - Anonymous

"It is a good thing when you are judged, mocked or spoken ill of for the cause of Jesus. For it surely is a sign of a man walking with his Lord? You are blessed when they speak ill of you for the name of Jesus." - Frank Mceleny

"If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.” ”• John Piper

"Few people can be delivered from pride, but from an public experience of humiliation." - Walter H. Beuttler

"If I should offend anyone knowingly, I shall immediately apologize. I will not scatter evil reports about any person and so try to defame their character, or repeat things that I am not certain of being true. I will strive to remove the curse of strife among brethren by acting as a peacemaker." - John G. Lake

"Take a living church, give it a dead preacher, and he will kill that church in a few months. Give a dead church a living man of God and he will bring life to that church." - B. H. Clendennen

"Nothing set a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." - Jonathan Edwards

"Christianity without repentance is no Christianity at all. It needs to be put back in to the Evangelism." - Keith Malcomson

"Thank God, a revival started in my heart 30 years ago, and it has never stopped; it will never end. As long as Jesus is kept in the front, and made the center of fellowship and blessing and unity, the revival will never end.” - George Jeffreys

"Our weapons of warfare are the Word of God, Intercessory Prayer and a Holy Life." - Paul Washer

"The ornaments of saints in the early church were cold cast iron prison chains about the wrists and feet, NOT gold chains about the necks and ankles." - David Valderrama

"Our attempts at living the Christian life in our own power were always meant to fail. God never intended for us to succeed by self-effort...
He wants us to come to the end of ourselves...to allow His Son, Jesus Christ, to live His life in and through us.” - Major Ian Thomas

"Lord...I want constantly to be aware of Thy overshadowing Presence...I want to live so fully in the Spirit that all my thought may be as sweet incense ascending to Thee and every act of my life may be an act of worship...that I may perfectly love Thee” ”” A.W. Tozer

"The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world." - Henry Blackaby

"Let us beware of having an orthodoxy that has NOT been set on FIRE by the Holy Spirit. It is perilously possible to be fundamental and yet fearful, to be correct and yet cold, to be orthodox and yet dead.” - L. E. Maxwell

"Hard preaching makes soft hearts." - John MacArthur

"We go astray when we attempt to do spiritual work without spiritual power." - A.W. Tozer

"Never let fear keep you from doing what you must do." - K.P. Yohannan

"I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God." - John Bunyan

"How is it that the Lord’s people have so little perseverance in prayer? They are so easily persuaded to turn away empty. Instead of wrestling with God to pour out His Spirit, they retire from the secret place without the answer, and submit to it as being God’s will.” - William C. Burns

"The only thing that is going to prepare your heart and mine for the onslaught of deception that is coming over the world and over the church, is abiding in the anointing. It's the only thing that is going to do it." - George Warnock

"Humility is key! Humility is the opposite of pride. The Love of God in 1 Corinthians 13, can only be lived out in our lives by humility, and true humility is the character of the Indwelling Christ." - Arthur Burt

"The biggest challenge is maintaining a solid, private life with God. The more successful you are in what you’re doing, the more demands are going to be put on you.” - Micheal Brown

"Read it through; write it down; pray it in; work it out; pass it on. The Word of God changes a man until he becomes an Epistle of God.” - Smith Wigglesworth

"I have only one goal in this life: to see my Jesus, face to face." - David Wilkerson

"I am 100 percent convinced that the best medicine for spiritual exhaustion is praise." - Micheal Youssef

"David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant,
but he was chosen of God." - Dwight L. Moody

"One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church
was the spirit of boldness." - A.B. Simpson

"We shall have to be, right to the end, brought more and more to an end of human resource... Every rising higher in the scale of spiritual life will be by a fresh crisis of human impossibility." - T. Austin Sparks